Quote for Today: Michael Bassey Johnson
Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to...
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Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...
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Quote for Today: Nitya Prakash
Instant gratification is overrated. While it might seem exciting to be able to snap your fingers and have something you want materialize before your eyes, that won’t give you the full appreciation or...
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Quote for Today: Blaise Pascal
We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if were found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay it’s too rapid...
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Quote for Today: Percy Bysshe Shelley
We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the...
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Quote for Today: Martin Luther King, Jr
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day...
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Quote for Today: Lloyd Jones
I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about...
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Quote for Today: Thrity Umrigar
We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures of the earth. Born with...
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Quote for Today: Isaac Leib Peretz
I am a rainworm, buried deep Among the oozing, slimy things, Yet of an eagle’s nest I dream, And eagle’s wings. —Isaac Leib Peretz, “I am a rainworm”, translated by J. Robbins Public Domain Image via...
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Quote for Today: Loren Eiseley
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests or hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages...
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Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallness that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings. ― Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies...
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Parenthesis by Vasilios Papaioannu wins our “Flow” video contest
Synkroniciti was thrilled with the response for our “flow” video contest. There were several strong candidates and we chose Vasilios Papaioannu’s “Parenthesis,” which is not only a work of great...
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Quote for Today: C.S. Lewis
It sets one dreaming—to interchange thoughts with beings whose thinking had an organic background wholly different from ours (other senses, other appetites), to be unenviously humbled by intellects...
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Quote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to...
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“Those Who Paint the Heavenly Porch” by Jonathan Yungkans wins our first...
Synkroniciti is delighted to award the prize for our “Space” flash fiction contest to Jonathan Yungkans for his story “Those Who Paint the Heavenly Porch, ” an atmospheric piece hinting at the...
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“Family” Featured Artist Katharine Weinmann
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back Canadian poet and photographer Katharine Weinmann with two heartfelt elegiac poems. “Trilogy of Loss, and Love for Annie” memorializes her beloved dog who...
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“Belonging” Featured Artist Gabriela Manolova
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome writer, poet and visual artist Gabriela Manolova from Sofia, Bulgaria, with “sounds like home,” a poem about finding love and belonging. It describes an idealized...
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